New Horizons Will Soon Solve a Mystery About an Object a Billion Miles Past Pluto

Two for the price of one. The object, MU69, could be a single, long target. NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Alex Parker In less than two years, the New Horizons space probe is going to go whizzing by an object a billion miles further away from us than Pluto at speeds of up to 30,000 miles per hour. We know generally…